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- The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition…
- Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least…
- The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has…
- The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being…
- It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions…
- The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests…
- As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful…
- What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the…
- After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United…
- While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component parts of…
- This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms…
- The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the…
- The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one…
- The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a…
- There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil…
- I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to…
- The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all…
- The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare…
- It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which…
- Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would…
- The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in…
- If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected?…
- It is presumable that no country will be able to borrow of foreigners upon better terms than the United States, because none can, perhaps, afford…
- It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of…
- Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.
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